Deep Learning for Password Guessing and Password Strength Evaluation, A Survey

Text passwords are the most widely used authentication methods and will also be used in the future. Text passwords can be regarded as meaningful strings, and deep learning methods have an advantage of text processing. LSTM, RNN, GAN and other deep learning models have been using in password guessing and password strength measurements. In the paper, we make a survey on state-of-the-art deep learning methods for password guessing and password strength evaluation, including password pattern extraction, candidate password generation and password strength measurement. Compared with traditional methods, neural networks based methods can achieve better results and performance.